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- Title:
- "Jerusalem, Chapter 2. Every ornament of perfection..." (Plate 28)
- Part Of:
Collective Title: Jerusalem: The Emanation of The Giant Albion, Copy E
- Date:
- 1804 to 1820
- Materials & Techniques:
- Relief and white-line etching printed in orange ink, with watercolor and pen and black ink on moderately thick, smooth, cream wove paper
- Dimensions:
- Sheet: 13 1/2 x 10 3/8 inches (34.3 x 26.4 cm), Plate: 8 7/8 x 6 3/8 inches (22.5 x 16.2 cm)
- Inscription(s)/Marks/Lettering:
Inscribed in orange ink, upper right: "28"
Lettered inside image: "Jerusalem. | Chap:2, | Every ornament of perfection, and every labour of love, | In all the Garden of Eden, & in all the golden mountains, | Was become an envied horror, and a remembrance of jealousy: | And every Act a Crime, and Albion the punisher & judge. | And Albion spoke from his secret seat and said: | All these ornaments are crimes, they are made by the labours | Of loves: of unnatural consanguinities and friendships, | Horrid to think of when enquired deeply into: and all | These hills & valleys are accursed witnesses of Sin. | I therefore condense them into solid rocks, stedfast: | A foundation and certainty and demonstrative truth: | That Man be separate from Man, & here I plant my seat. | Cold snows drifted around him : ice cover'd his loins around. | He sat by Tyburn's brook, and underneath his heel shot up | A deadly Tree: he nam'd it Moral Virtue, and the Law | Of God who dwells in Chaos hidden from the human sight. | The Tree spread over him its cold shadows, (Albion groan'd) | They bent down, they felt the earth and again enrooting | Shot into many a Tree: an endless labyrinth of woe! | From willing sacrifice of Self, to sacrifice of (miscall'd) Enemies | For Atonement: Albion began to erect twelve Altars, | Of rough unhewn rocks, before the Potter's Furnace. | He nam'd them Justice, and Truth. And Albion's Sons | Must have become the first Victims, being the first transgressors: | But they fled to the mountains to seek ransom : building A Strong | Fortification against the Divine Humanity and Mercy, | In Shame & Jealousy to annihilate Jerusalem!"
- Credit Line:
- Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
- Copyright Status:
- Public Domain
- Accession Number:
- B1992.8.1(28)
- Classification:
- Prints
- Collection:
- Prints and Drawings
- Subject Terms:
- kissing | leaf | literary theme | nudes | religious and mythological subject | shells | sky | sun | text | women
- Access:
- On view
- Link:
- https://collections.britishart.yale.edu/catalog/tms:3457
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